About Deborah
Deborah Goza is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 19 years of experience. She keeps therapy straightforward and practical, helping people set goals and work toward clear outcomes. Deborah aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while using approaches that make sense in daily life.
Her sessions begin by getting to know the person and the patterns that shape thoughts and behavior. She helps clients identify difficult habits that often operate beneath awareness.
How Deborah works
With that insight, she and the client set realistic goals and take small, consistent steps toward change. Deborah blends several evidence-based methods to match a person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, client-centered skills to build trust and self-understanding, and mindfulness tools to reduce reactivity and increase focus.
Emotion-focused ideas are also included when relationship feelings and attachment come into view. She has worked with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and ADHD.
Deborah structures treatment to each person's situation and encourages active participation. She emphasizes clear steps, practical skills, and measurable progress so people can see results and build more satisfying daily lives.
Deborah lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Deborah works with
The areas below are the ones Deborah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How Deborah’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, then choose values-guided steps forward. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens and reflects so people better understand themselves and feel supported.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Deborah works with clients to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. She tailors sessions so techniques are relevant to what a person wants to change and how they prefer to work, making the plan a collaborative effort.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls provide a face-to-face rhythm similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or check in when a quick exchange fits their schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and family commitments.
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